When I arrived in America in June 1965 in Cincinnati, Ohio, there was obvious racial discrimination.

Inside the hospital environment, we did not feel so much but when we are outside or traveling,

I personally felt a lot of racial discrimination. In New Orleans, I wondered if I should get on the bus

through the front door (for whites) or back door (for blacks). I got on through the front door

and sat with the white and, fortunately, nothing happened.

The things got slowly better through the 1970s and 1980s.

By the 1980s, I was no longer conscious of my being a Korean with an Asian face and skin.

It is too sad that blacks are still in trouble even today.

Trump has made it even worse. He has become a symbol of white supremacy.

He has increased social violence such as gun and racial crimes.

The ignorant and pitiful rednecks thought they would be protected by the Trump regime.

George Floyd was murdered indirectly by Trump through an emboldened cop under his regime.

Under Trump, our good American society is being torn apart together with wide-spread social unrest.

We have to get rid of this scumbag before we may end up in the world of pre-1965. 

Though I arrived at Richmond, VA on 1968, that was 3 years behind you, I really didn't have much idea on the segregation issue then despite Richmond was the capital of Southern Confederate, Steve! Perhaps Kentucky is a step closer to deep South, it might have been worse there. Anyhow over 50 years passed and we still do have it!  Feel so sad and angry to watch one innocent man was literally killed like an animal only because of his skin color!!!

After all, this country was built by the White who invaded this Land of Peace and killed almost all native Indians to steal the land and bring kidnapped Blacks from Africa to drive as slaves! Naturally, there is no such moral and ethics but the lawlessness is their base principle, no more no less! That's what we have now.

Sadly,

BB

This NY Times article may be blaming American society for the black's trouble.

However, there may be problems with these people themselves.

Something has to be wrong in these people and their parents.

In the same or similar situation are the Vietnamese and Koreans

but these Asian people are not like blacks.

They prosper, sometimes, much better than the white. Are they just lucky? 

Precisely, doc, precisely, no doubt!!!

Indeed, I always wonder whether they do have different genes we, Asian or Jews do not have.

I am sure you all heard same story many many times but Korean immigrants took over all the vegetable stands in New York from Jews to work around the clock seven days a week as Jews did at the beginning to settle, and all their second generation became the professional to compensate their parent's sacrifice!

What about the black? Is 200 year slavery able to change their genes? I simply can't accept if it were true!!! I happen to have a couple of colleagues, sons of immigrants lately from Congo and Nigeria, and they're are as good as any others if not better!  I simply don't get it, doc! 

BB Lee

P.S. I can't help but have to share one success story of Vietnamese boat people here in Washington DC. The owner of a small dingy bicycle repair shop in Maryland suberb who had seven children, escaped from  Vietnam as 'boat people', was referred to me for the vascular problem and found all seven children went to Ivy Leagues and became professionals! I asked to him and his wife whether they pushed them to study hard. They stared at me in grimace for a while and said "Doc, they are not a fool! They have brains enough to figure out what they have to do!". Further, he said "Doc, I was a professor at the university in Saigon" but I am so happy to have an opportunity to work here in the U.S., "the Land of Hope" for our children even if I work as a bicycle repair man! I blushed my face with my stupid question!

Almost all American blacks are not pure blacks like blacks in Africa. They have mixed blood 

with Europeans. They are taller and bigger than African blacks. They are much more athletic 

than African blacks. I think the white Americans are responsible for the status of Blacks in America. 
They will pay them for their original sin dearly. 

You remind me of my limited experience on Black people, either ethnically 'pure(?)' as classified on the sensus or 'mixed'  in Brazil, Dr. Ohn.

Indeed, I have been actively engaged with South American colleagues for decades as a honorary member of the society of three leading countries/Argentina, Brazil and Chile and learned a lot about such striking differences among these three countries - I still accept to go down to Argentina at least once a year till last September!-.

But Brazil is strikingly different from two other countries, Chile and Aregntina or even Colombia, maintaining quite unique culture including the foods based on the racial background, I was fascinated with. Of course, the South Eastern part of Brazil like Sao Paolo is NOT much different from Argentina, led/dominated by European immigrant descendants- amazingly large group of Italian descendants though not as many as Argentina remaining to understand Italian, especially of Southern dialect like Sicilian (my wife speaks Italian so that she figured it out!)-. But when you move up a little bit to north to Bahia region like Salvador, the majority of the peoples belong to mixed race- virtually black to me- and their culture and foods in particular are based on West African/black origin. But I was told there is no racial conflicts, of course, like here in the U.S. though they were brought to Brazil as slaves to harvest sugar canes. Indeed, interestingly, I found there are still a small group/percentage of the people identify themselves as so called 'black/Africans' on their national sensus, although absolute majority of black claims as 'mixed' race with no visible conflicts with White majority, they told me. So, I still can't understand what's wrong with same West Africans brought to the U.S. as slaves like Brazilians having such difficulty Brazilian blacks do NOT have!!!  Only because American Whites refuse to accept their equal right?

God knows!!!

BB Lee

I guess Spanish and Portuguese are not as sophisticated as British. 
British have many layers in their mind and you don't know what 

they are thinking. America has been ruled by WASP's. 
 

What does the acronym WASP stand for?

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants/Full name

WASP is used to refer to the people in American society whose ancestors came from northern Europe, especially England, and who were formerly considered to have a lot of power and influence. WASP is an abbreviation for 'White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. ' [US, disapproval]

I don't know how much the Northerner Yankee led by WASP should be blamed on 'current' situation Blacks struggle with, Dr. Ohn, but on contrary to the Southerners, Yankee/WASPs remained definitely liberal with full supports on the emancipation issue through the Civil War.

Indeed, I learned a lot about the mentality WASP has through my senior partner, Charlie Currier who recruited me to come up to town to helping him to found the transplant surgery program at Georgetown Univ in 1978.

Charlie was born with a silver spoon in his mouth among leading WASP families in Boston- his father as well has three degrees from Harvard; undergraduate, business, and law-, who came down to Richmond to have an additional fellowship under David Hume while I was a chief resident; Charlie, more or less, imitated David Hume to get a dedicated assistant like HM Lee, to choose me to work for him. So, I thoroughly learned about WASP culture through Charlie and I do not hesitate to give all the credits they/WASP deserved. Though Charlie was such a staunch supporter to the conservatives/Republican, he remains remarkably liberal with hunamitartian view on the black issue, not like Southerners. 

So I feel there must be something more I didn't get correctly!

BB Lee